Oh, yes indeedy. That’s a big part of the reason why I won: I hadn’t played in so long I had to re-read the rules in the box to remember. And, of course, my wife was prepared to play by the rules she was used to: the way everyone else plays. So she was off-balance from the beginning.
I still hated the game, but I was glad to have the game over in under 2 hours, for a change.
It appears the auction rule, by his own admission, devolves into a family feud just as fast. Mind you, we have, somewhere, a Waddingtons game of mid-70s vintage called ‘Safari’, that my dad brought home from a charity shop, with a ruleset of almost tabletop RPG levels of complexity, which we attempted to play. Once. It sparked an argument so ferocious that it was placed at the top of a high cupboard and Never Spoken Of Again.
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Also… never knew I could do this in BB comments 
This cover is a travesty!
Everyone knows it’s more efficient if you have one make sandwiches while the other cleans up.
Then we can do manly stuff like kill things and blow stuff up!
reads
tries scrolling down
autoloads, jumps down, autoloads, jumps down
tries searching to find where I was… it isn’t there any more
tries scrolling up
autoloads, jumps up, skips stuff, jumps to top.
tries scrolling down
autoloads, jumps down, skips stuff, jumps to bottom
And there’s some thought to Battleship. A tedious otherwise-random search array which goes after the odds on one row and the evens on the next will beat a tedious completely random search array.
I’m just curious, but do you live near any bridges?
only post-modernism can imagine never-sexism
Imagining it is easy. Getting there is the challenge. I’m just hoping it doesn’t take another 5000 years of civilization.
Ah. Ha ha. No, I do not live underneath.
Centrum
Ellen vs women pens
National Literacy range enhancer (apparently)
Nerf’s “Heartbreaker Bow” - complete with darts that look like tampon packaging
Cleaning? Pfft - it’s girl’s stuff
But, I’m a guy… can’t I join in? NO! GIRLS ONLY
Science is surely safe from this… after all, it’s real chemistry!!
What is this i don’t even
If it close dis week, I know nuttin’ bout it. I am not a bully.
Actually, I remember a couple of other boardgames we used to play as a family (Waddington’s ones, natch)
Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs was pretty naff, but I fondly remember Escape from Atlantis.
I was going to like your post, but that shave the baby doll is rather creepy.
Just as a note: Escape from Atlantis is still available in a slightly modified form under the name Survive!
(Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs, however, is long gone.)
Does Cards Against Humanity count?
Saw this today…
All sexism is ultimately negative for both sexes.
What’s strange is that I don’t see the sexism in the jello commercial. Sure it’s picturing a housewife, but housewives are real and at least it is acknowledging that there is real work to be done. Women who work in the home were the target demographic there, though there’s no reason a man couldn’t make jello (or be working at home). I actually kind of like the animation style.
